Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Benjamin Fitzpatrick (30 June 1802-21 November 1869) was Governor of Alabama (D) from 22 November 1841 to 10 December 1845 (succeeding Arthur P. Bagby and preceding Joshua L. Martin) and a US Senator from 25 November 1848 to 30 November 1849 (succeeding Dixon Hall Lewis and preceding Jeremiah Clemens) and from 14 January 1853 to 21 January 1861 (succeeding William R. King and preceding George E. Spencer).

Biography
Benjamin Fitzpatrick was born in Greene County, Georgia in 1802, and, after being orphaned, he was taken to Alabama by his sister in 1815. He became a lawyer in Montgomery in 1821, and he started a plantation in Autauga County in 1829 and began planting. From 1841 to 1845, he served as Governor, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1848 to 1849 and from 1853 to 1861 as a Democrat. In 1861, he withdrew from the Senate following his state's secession, and he served as president of his state's constitutional convention in 1865. He died in 1869.